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More on the IG Walpin Firing Scandal

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Sexual abuse accusations by St. HOPE Academy students against Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson were apparently covered up, possibly with “hush money,” according to a 61-page report issued by congressional investigators.

Failure of school officials to report sexual abuse of minors violates California state law, investigative staff of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) noted in their report on the June firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin.

The allegations investigated by Walpin’s office were “very serious,” Grassley said in a statement, saying that evidence indicates a political motive for the IG’s firing. “It seems a lot of people might have been interested in protecting the AmeriCorps program and the Mayor of Sacramento from an IG who was discovering some unpleasant facts.”

And Warner Todd Huston on the union idiocy contained in Obama's stimulus idiocy:

Obama’s EO demanded that every federal construction project force a PLA on its contractors. Essentially, a PLA requires all hired contractors and their employees to pay union dues, work under union rules, and pay into union pensions (even though they will never get any benefits from them) whether they belong to a union or not. This forced unionism is to be enforced despite that up to 84 percent of all contractors in the country are not part of a union.

This forced unionism raises the costs of government projects, causes delays to construction deadlines and fills the pockets of corrupt union officials that work hand-in-hand with pliant government officials who then find union campaign cash coming their way. A PLA is essentially just a payoff to unions as there really is no legitimate reason to force non-union businesses to operate under union domination. PLAs are little else but a direct transfer of government funds (your tax dollars) straight into the hands of corrupt union officials and their bank accounts.

I mean, imagine how you would feel if you were a non-union employee and in order to be allowed to work you are told that you have to pay union dues all the while knowing that you have no vote in the union, no choice on the matter, and that you will never benefit from the union pension that your dues money is supposed to be paying for. How would that make you feel?

Malkin has the story about SEIU rank and file squaring off against labor bosses in San Francisco.

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First, you told me there was a Santa Claus…

Al Gore - on realizing he's been realized...

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The Climes, They Are A-Changin’

Even the namesake of Moonbats everywhere has to admit that he's been hoodwinked.

The funding paradox. The agony of the Moonbats.

Still, there's evidence that ManBearPig might be right . . .

And yet the cozy relation between MBP and the MSM continues:

We now know Gore’s errors are based on the global warming fraud orchestrated by a few scientists centered round Phil Jones, Director of the CRU. Emails between those climate scientists, identified by Professor Wegman as publishing together and peer reviewing each other’s work disclose the complete manipulation of climate science and the Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Bishop Hill provides a useful summation of some of the outrageous comments and actions. What is missing is the nasty vindictive tone that permeates almost every item.

What are the mainstream media going to do? How can they ignore the biggest scandal in science history and then claim any credibility? We already have a strong indication because they either don’t cover it or claim, like Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, there is nothing of consequence. No surprise because he was in direct communication with the CRU gang. Other left wing outlets have similar reports such as the Guardian in England and Harrabin at the BBC. Delingpole at the Telegraph identifies some vapid responses.

Read the whole thing.  In sum, the MSM seems to want to treat this the way that they have the O'Keefe-Giles hidden camera revelations regarding ACORN, and to suborn Moonbeam Attorneys General to go after the whistleblowers, rather than the fraudsters.

In a PJM exclusive, Viscount Monckton weighs in:

This is what they did — these climate “scientists” on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights.

Another must read.

And a stinging slapdown at JWF. And mirth from Jules.

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Ex Post Facto White House Docs Dump

reveals ex post facto creation of rationale for IG Walpin termination:

Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents on the affair. It was a twist on the now-familiar White House late-Friday release of bad news; this time, the new evidence was put out not only at the start of a weekend but also hours too late for inclusion in the report.

The new documents support the Republican investigators' conclusion that the White House's explanation for Walpin's dismissal -- that it came after the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, unanimously decided that Walpin must go -- was in fact a public story cobbled together after Walpin was fired, not before.

Transparency! Post-partisanship! Post-racialism!

Meanwhile, Warner Todd Huston on unions blackmailing their members into compliance.

Hey, look: a San Diego ACORN documents dump.

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MSM Coverage of Climategate Warmaquiddick [UPDATED]

Lots of people will be all over this, as well they should. Here's an early entry from Ed Driscoll. At issue is how the MSM will "cover" the greatest scientific scandal of the past 100 years. So far, the AP seems to think that the answer is to double down and claim that the warming that hasn't occurred since 1998 has accelerated.

You may recall that a couple of months ago the BBC astonished the world by walking back its claims about AGW, actually presenting the evidence developed by skeptics. This was in the face of the Copenhagen summit where the mechanisms for exploiting the lies cultivated for many years by a coalition of portions of the scientific community, unelected internationalist politicians, and enterpreneurial mountebanks were to be instituted, all in the name of saving the world. This was to involve the redistribution of billions of dollars and the shackling of the economies of developed nations, in exchange for the promise of green collar jobs in Utopia and polar bear welfare in general.

Reeling in the polls, Gordon Brown has begged Obama to make his presence felt in a big way at this conference---unaware, apparently, that Obama has so squandered his political capital at home in pushing domestic schemes for redistribution that he hasn't any left to squander on this particular stage. And now comes the smoking gun evidence that there was indeed a conspiracy to doctor the data at CRU and related facilities, and to suppress contrary evidence. The person who leaked this information should be an international hero, but is met instead with blatantly hypocritical denunciations on the part of the MSM, which happily followed their instructions to gin up panic, because it gave them the aura of access to special knowledge, and demonstrated their unique concern for the condition of Mother Earth.

As has become the pattern, this new information will at first be deployed only on Fox, and that will be taken by the legacy media as prima facie evidence of bias, the White House will again impute sinister motives to them, et cetera, but eventually as Americans, who have become increasingly skeptical of the claims of Warm-Mongers become aware of the scale of deception, the MSM will be forced to blame the scientist whom they once revered for deceiving them. And once again, their complicity in their own bamboozlement will receive only rare consideration from a handfull of reasonably honest authors.

And this overview is simply excellent.

UPDATE: "This is not a smoking gun. This is a mushroom cloud." Link to Andrew Revkin spinning wildly at the NYT.

Not a single piece on this at ScienceDaily.com.

CNN sucks (but you knew that).

Melanie Phillips on the totalitarianism.

Inhofe unloads, calls for investigation.

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Just Machines That Make Big Decisions

Sorry, it's nothing but a links dump.

First off, Jules has some recommendations for Thanksgiving reading, and is kind enough to link us, too. Honestly, he's been on fire all week, so keep scrolling.

Carol from No Sheeples sent this delightfully pooky season's greeting:

The best short explanation of Climategate is Andrew Bolt's, here. And via Spies, Brigands and Pirates comes this handy overview of the important email exchanges. I don't like to mention him, but Charles Johnson's saying that this is a "non-troversy" which will sink without leaving a trace (much like LGF). The intellectual incuriousity of the perpetually self-satisfied often stupefies one.

Doug Ross has a nice round up of 10 of the most salient things to hate about the proposed health care legislation.

Donald Douglas considers the revolting Berkeley students.

This goes out to an impatient Moe Lane:

The ever-perspicacious William Jacobson had an excellent week, as well, so go check that out.

The Heartache of Gobsmite.

Radley Balko, one of that small cadre of people who actually do investigative journalism, has an excellent article up about prosecutorial indiscretion, not entirely unrelated to this calculated violation of the confessional. Meanwhile, Germany is sending an official observer to make sure that no evidence provided by Germany against KSM will be used in the trial Holder insists should be held in civilian court in NYC.

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Watch the Senate Health Care Debate Live

At The B-Cast.

Republicans:

Democrats:

(h/t Karl)

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